| History/Scope | Ruth Way, a keen photographer throughout her life, was born in Wrexham in 1924. She studied Geography at University College London and completed a London University Teachers' Diploma. She went on to teach for a major part of her career at the girls' grammar school in Kent. In 1964 she was made a FRGS and in 1966 she was awarded a Goldsmiths' Travel Scholarship, which enabled her to make an extended visit to Turkey and Greece and to develop her special interest in the Crete Minoans. She left teaching to become Geographical Advisor to Visual Publications, London. She travelled widely in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Americas, going as far as Ushuaia, the most southernly town in the world. She also visited Easter Island and extended her interest in the Incas in Peru at Machu Pichu. Her last trip was to Namibia in Africa. She died after a short illness in May 2001. Her collection was donated to the Society by her friend, Margaret Simmons, so that it could be preserved and made accessible to the public. |
